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Musings of a Zombie Girl
We are all zombies.
What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?
I have to use all these programs that cut off the internet, force me to be bored, because being bored is an essential part of writing, and the internet has made it very hard to be bored.
Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.
CS Lewis quote. Feeling a bit like this at the minute. Good things to come me thinks.
(Source: victoryjewelry)
I couldn’t live a week without a private library - indeed, I’d part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I’d let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.
(Source: superbunneh)
Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
(Source: guiteau)
If you liked being a teenager, there’s something really wrong with you.
(Source: littlefishiesonboard, via littlefishiesonboard)
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone’s neurosis, and we’d have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.
Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.
Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
